The above photo is of a special Passover card that my brother's family sent us many years ago. It hangs on a high beam in our kitchen with it's forceful positive message inching me on, step by step, each & every day....
Monday night is the first night of Passover which will be celebrated all over the world in the remembrance of the Jewish People having left Egypt, of which we were enslaved for hundreds of years. Hundreds of years after the passing of Joseph. Joseph of the-- "Coat of many colors.", Joseph. The son of Jacob. Jacob of the famed song-- "We are climbing Jacob's ladder." Each & every year the people of my heritage are to-- "Regard ourselves as if we had personally gone out of Egypt."
In our modern day world there may no longer be Pharaohs, but there are still higher archeries, of all sorts; in countries, governments, businesses & places of work, educational settings, neighborhoods, & the like. As a specie it is designed into us to be pack & tribal members & leaders, the ones we were born into & later the ones we seek out.
It does get complicated, our leaving Egypt, even in the 21st century, it remains a complicated process, our leaving behind the old & negative patterns & attitudes of a comfort that ultimately may be enslaving us. It is for this main reason that Passover remains an integral part of my living experience. It is quite the challenge to balance-- being true to the self, one's dignity of a person / with the selfless, ego less self. These two at times must work very hard to make a lasting peace.
*Amen*
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